Word: mercerize
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Tall, slim, fine-featured like his father. Hillyer Hawthorne Straton also inherits much of the paternal eloquence. He studied at Mercer University (Ga.), Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. He has been married two years...
...regiment as soon as he got to London on leave. It is just enough of a change to key the story up to cinema requirements without destroying any of its tenderness. Because she felt embarrassed when other scrub- women boasted of their fighting sons, old Mrs. Dowey (Beryl Mercer) picked out a Black Watch private (Gary Cooper) who happened to have her own name. She told people she was his mother, sent him cakes and sweaters, making him believe they came from some fine lady. When he came to scold her for her pretensions she won him over so effectively...
...build tremendous companies, but just as great as the problems of organization are those of obtaining capable executives. When Cyrus Stephen Eaton (no steelman) last week announced the final details of the merger between his steel companies, the head of the new Republic Steel Corp. was of course Tom Mercer Girdler whom, three months ago, he snatched from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin Steel (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Jones & Laughlin announced that a man had been obtained to fill the Girdlerless post of presidency. He is George Gordon Crawford, who has been president of Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad...
...tearful protestations of his bishop, William D. Walker; attacked also the Standard Oil Co.; won notoriety by marrying two actors of a burlesque troupe on the stage of Rochester's Old Corinthian Theatre. In Philadelphia: he denounced local politicians, Bishop Coadjutor Alexander Mackay-Smith, Bishop Philip Mercer Rhinelander; defended Professor Scott Nearing who was ousted by the University of Pennsylvania for "radicalism." He was tried (1914) before the Chancellor of the Diocese on 14 counts of conduct unbecoming a clergyman and in violation of his ordination vows. The trial, lasting a year, ended in Preacher Richmond's suspension...
...several shadows thrown before the Republic merger event was last month's (TIME, Nov. 4) resignation of Tom Mercer Girdler from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh's great "family" steel company. Last year Jones & Laughlin made Mr. Girdler president, having heard that the Eaton interests were negotiating with him, so that his departure from Jones & Laughlin indicated that Mr. Eaton had some large fish ready to fry. Mr. Girdler, who has spent nearly 30 years in various steel mills, swears vigorously and always keeps his hat on, to be ready for emergency calls...